| Jeremiah / Josiah.
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Esther. | Psalm cxxxvii. | Habakkuk, Daniel,
| | Obadiah, Ezekiel.
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Ezra. | Psalms cxx. to cxxxiv. (probably sung | Haggai, Zechariah,
| on the way back). | Malachi.
Nehemiah. | Psalms cxiii. to xcviii. at consecration of |
| Temple. |
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BIBLE CHRISTIANS. Sometimes called Bryanites. They are the followers
of a Mr. William O'Bryan, a Wesleyan local preacher in Cornwall,
who, in 1815, separated from the Wesleyans, and began himself to
form societies upon the Methodist plan. In doctrine they do not
appear to differ from the various bodies of Arminian Methodists.
The forms of public worship are of the same simple character. But
in the administration of the Lord's Supper "it is usual to receive
the elements in a sitting posture, as it is believed that that
practice is more comformable to the posture of body in which it was
first received by Christ's Apostles, than kneeling; but persons are
at liberty to kneel, if it be more suitable to their views and
feelings to do so." Members of this sect are nearly all Cornish
people.

_Ministers_. _Lay Preachers_. _Members_.
173. 1,442. 24,238.

_On_ _Sunday_
_Probation_. _Chapels_. _Scholars_.
822. 574. 37.361.

BIDDING PRAYER. The Prayer before the Sermon. Before the Reformation
it was called the _Bidding of the beads_. The people were bid to
pray for certain objects as the preacher successively named them.
The canonical form of the present prayer is given in the 55th Canon.
The ordinary practice of using a collect is now sanctioned by
custom. An extempore prayer, however, from the preacher is quite
unauthorized. At the University sermons, and also on occasions of
more than usual solemnity, the Bidding Prayer is always used. In
Borough towns it is appropriately repeated on the Sunday next after
November 9th, when the Mayor is elected.

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